A timely reminder of quality

Something needed to have gone badly wrong for any driver to have the soft Pirelli tyres fitted to their car during the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. These were not tyres to try and race on, despite the coronavirus cost-saving rules meaning all drivers had eight sets of them going into the weekend.

Until his third stint in last Sunday’s race, it’s hard to consider Nico Hulkenberg’s efforts as anything other than a shining success – even if his slow getaway from his third-place starting spot had made